Greater Los Angeles Area

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Map of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Greater Los Angeles Area or Los Angeles Metropolitan Area is the metropolitan area around the Californian metropolis of Los Angeles . After the New York Metropolitan Area , it is the second largest metropolitan area in the United States by population and one of the largest in the world. It is entirely located in Southern California .

The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana Metropolitan Statistical Area has a population of 12,872,808 and an area of ​​14,763 km 2 (as of 2008). The broader Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside Combined Statistical Area has 17,786,419 inhabitants (as of 2008) on 91,470 km 2 , and extends from the Pacific coast in the west to the California state border with Arizona and Nevada in the east. The latter definition also includes the extensive counties of Riverside and San Bernardino , which in their eastern parts largely consist of extremely sparsely populated deserts and semi-deserts .

Several urban areas ( agglomerations ) are included in the metropolitan region . The largest of them is the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana Urbanized Area with 11,789,487 inhabitants on 4320 km 2 (as of 2000), which is the second largest urban area in the United States after New York-Newark .

Counties

The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana Metropolitan Statistical Area comprises the counties of Los Angeles (population 9,862,049) and Orange (population 3,010,759).

The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside Combined Statistical Area also includes the counties Riverside (2,100,516 inhabitants), San Bernardino (2,015,355 inhabitants) and Ventura (797,740 inhabitants).

geography

While the main population is on the Pacific coast, the hinterland is mainly occupied by mountains and the Mojave Desert . The highest point is the San Gorgonio Mountain (3506 m) in the San Bernardino Mountains . The lowest point is three meters above sea ​​level in Wilmington on the port of Los Angeles . The largest mountain ranges are the San Bernardino Mountains, the San Gabriel Mountains , San Jacinto Mountains , Santa Ana Mountains , Santa Monica Mountains and Santa Susana Mountains .

traffic

Greater Los Angeles is crossed by several highways. Of national importance are:

With the Los Angeles International Airport is one of the largest airports in the world in Greater Los Angeles. Other airports are:

economy

The Los Angeles metropolitan area generated an economic output of 1.001 trillion US dollars in 2016. The GDP per capita was $ 66,477.

Military bases

The Mojave Desert, which takes up much of San Bernardino County, is home to some large-scale US military locations . These include the Fort Irwin Military Reservation of the Army , part of Edwards Air Force Base ( Air Force ) and the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake ( Navy ), and the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms and the 1999 Discontinued Marine Corps Air Station El Toro of the Marine Corps . San Clemente on the southern edge of the metropolitan area also borders Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton , the location of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force and most of its subordinate units.

See also

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ US Department of Commerce, BEA, Bureau of Economic Analysis: Bureau of Economic Analysis. Retrieved July 4, 2018 (American English).
  2. ↑ Per capita US Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2016, by metro area | Statistic. Retrieved July 4, 2018 .